Registered nurses at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital voted Tuesday to go on strike.

After 22 bargaining sessions with the hospital’s administration, the 480 nurses of the Wyoming Valley Nurses Association and the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals voted for a five-day strike to begin Friday.

Registered nurses at the hospital have been working under the terms of a contract that expired in April, according to a PASNAP press release.

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